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Sobers vs Viv vs Lara

The Best WI Batsman

  • Sobers

    Votes: 28 43.1%

  • Richards

    Votes: 17 26.2%

  • Lara

    Votes: 12 18.5%

  • Headley

    Votes: 8 12.3%
  • Total voters
    65
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subshakerz

Hall of Fame Member
Migara said:
Now a thing about Lara is that he played a set of ATG spinners, no other great batsman has ever managed to play. Lara faced Murali and Warne arguably the greatest test spinners of all time, and Kumble, Saqlain and Mushtaq, who are not far behind. None of Headly, Viv or Sobers played such a galore of great spinners and dominated. That keeps Lara on a place where no other West Indian batsman, infact any other test batsman, has been placed.
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Yeah Lara was a class of his own against spin but I wouldnt fancy him against express pace early at the crease.
 
Pap Finn Keighl

Pap Finn Keighl

International Debutant
Slifer said:
Just nit picking tbh. Imagine if Sobers had done his normal thing and had averaged 50+ vs NZ. I imagine that his average would be near 60.
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Sobers averaged 65 for the length of Viv career. With a better NZ performance.. It would have been close to 70. ?
 
harsh.ag

harsh.ag

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Migara said:
Now a thing about Lara is that he played a set of ATG spinners, no other great batsman has ever managed to play. Lara faced Murali and Warne arguably the greatest test spinners of all time, and Kumble, Saqlain and Mushtaq, who are not far behind. None of Headly, Viv or Sobers played such a galore of great spinners and dominated. That keeps Lara on a place where no other West Indian batsman, infact any other test batsman, has been placed.
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Sachin played all those, Kumble aside, plus another generation of Swann, Herath, Lyon.

Edit: Also played Qadir. WAG.
 
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Migara

Migara

International Coach
harsh.ag said:
Sachin played all those, Kumble aside, plus another generation of Swann, Herath, Lyon.

Edit: Also played Qadir. WAG.
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Didn't play Kumble though. Lara played all of them. And Sachin is not even the best player of spin in his side.
 
Migara

Migara

International Coach
OverratedSanity said:
Who was better than Sachin in the team? Sehwag arguably but dont think he had the defensive game against them that Sachin did. None of the others come close.
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Sidhu and Azhar as well.

Sidhu and Shewag were so good they did not need a defensive game.
 
W

Window

U19 Debutant
I’ve heard Azhar was really good against spin however. Pretty solid batsmen in general tbh with impressive numbers, definitely not just meh. Too bad about the fixing though…
 
h_hurricane

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
Sidhu was probably the only Indian batsman who had the misfortune of getting bowled around his legs by Warne.
 
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